Maryland
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Off to Wales soon for my 'summer' holiday. Available there from fishmongers, markets and some other outlets is laver, the prepared seaweed, that makes a delicious breakfast dish when fried up with bacon, oatmeal, and I like to add some chili.
Yum.
I always bring laver back from Wales because I've only ever seen it on sale this side of the border in an eyewateringly expensive places like a certain rich people's wholefood supermarket, where it's marketed as nori - the same sea vegetable, but gussied up for consumption as a Japanese thing.
Has anybody seen laver for sale anywhere around here, and for a reasonable price? There's a slightly chichi food emporium outside Ludlow where I've seen it, packed in tiny tins and marked up a lot. Outside my price range.
The obvious thought is 'prepare your own', but that's easier said than done; you have to know your seaweed, know where it's safe to gather it, and boil it for a long time.
So, any local sources known of?
Yum.
I always bring laver back from Wales because I've only ever seen it on sale this side of the border in an eyewateringly expensive places like a certain rich people's wholefood supermarket, where it's marketed as nori - the same sea vegetable, but gussied up for consumption as a Japanese thing.
Has anybody seen laver for sale anywhere around here, and for a reasonable price? There's a slightly chichi food emporium outside Ludlow where I've seen it, packed in tiny tins and marked up a lot. Outside my price range.
The obvious thought is 'prepare your own', but that's easier said than done; you have to know your seaweed, know where it's safe to gather it, and boil it for a long time.
So, any local sources known of?